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- ↑ Jose Martinez "Film opens Saturday in Bronx" Daily News Sunday, April 22, 2001
- 1 2 3 Cassandra Lizaire "Filmmaker Celebrates Cuban Tradition, Receives Arts Award," Norwood News June 28, 2007 http://www.norwoodnews.org/id=625&story=filmmaker-celebrates-cuban-tradition-receives-arts-award/
- ↑ "11th Cine Las Americas Winners" "11 th Cine las Americas Winners". Archived from the original on 2012-03-27. Retrieved 2011-07-16.
- ↑ Bronx Council on the Arts (list of 2010 BRIO winners) http://www.bronxarts.org/awardee_all.asp?SelCategory=15:2010&selSubcategory2=2 Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine
